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The United States National Park Service’s headquarters for the
Missouri National Recreational River are located in the city.
The Human Services Center was established as a psychiatric
hospital in 1882 and is on the National Register of Historic
Places. Yankton is commonly referred to as the “River City”,
due to its proximity to the Missouri River and the importance
that the river played in the city’s settlement and development.
Yankton has also earned the nickname, “Mother City of the
Dakotas”, due to the early important role it played in the creation
and development of the Dakota Territory, which later became
the 39th and 40th U.S. states of North and South Dakota,
respectively.
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Yankton
Yankton is a city in, and the county seat of, Yankton County,
South Dakota, United States.
Founded: 1869
Area: 8.45 sq. mi.
Elevation: 1,211’
Population: 14,552 (2014)
Zip code: 57078
Area code: 605
Number of airports: 1
Yankton is the principal city of the Yankton Micropolitan
Statistical Area, which includes the entirety of Yankton County,
and which had an estimated population of 22,702 as of
July 1, 2015.
Yankton was the first capital of Dakota Territory. It is named
for the Yankton tribe of Nakota (Sioux) Native Americans; Yankton
is derived from the Nakota word I-hank-ton-wan
(“the end village”). Yankton is located on the Missouri River
just downstream of the Gavins Point Dam and Lewis and Clark
Lake and just upstream of the confluence with the James River.
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